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“Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.” – G. M. Trevelyan

Quote of the Week: Planning Ahead

Published under Favorite Quotes Aug 24, 2012

Plan your hours to be productive, Plan your weeks to be educational, Plan your years to be purposeful, Plan your life to be an experience of growth Plan to change. Plan to grow. -Iyanla VanZant

A friend forwarded this documentary from Tom Shadyac, the director of Bruce Almighty and Ace Ventura, who goes through a crisis of identity and discovers deeper truths about the forces that power our world. Any further description is probably going to make you want to run away, but if you have the patience, you will [...]

“Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

My Dad used to tell us a story he conceived about a little bird named Bimbambu when we were kids. It is one of my favorite stories – about a kindly bird who literally sheds all his feathers in order to help other animals fight the winter weather along the way, only to end up [...]

Quote of the Week: Key to Success

Published under Favorite Quotes Aug 10, 2012

“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” -Bill Cosby

“A problem well stated is a problem half solved.” – Charles Franklin Kettering

“We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.” -Bill Gates

“Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.” – Sally Koch

This YouTube video below is a funny satire on its own. But it becomes dangerously hilarious when I tell you that on my most recent trip to Ramallah, a couple friends showed it to me as proof that Facebook was a CIA subsidiary. They were serious. And they thought the video was real. Which should [...]